Volunteer in Haiti!

  Haiti

Port-au-Prince

Durations of Program: 1-2 weeks, 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks and 3-6 months
Typical Duration of Program: 1-2 weeks

Description: Short-term voluntary projects (workcamps) focusing on :
* charity work with orphans and children from underprivileged and disadvantaged background
* environmental protection
* social services including recreation and care programs for children, elderly and people with special needs
* restoration and conservation work
* any other volunteer actions with social impact

Highlights: FEDI-Haiti understands the importance of service to the poor, and we want to help those who have been led to contribute their time and talents. If you have a strong interest in volunteering to help the poor overseas, volunteer with us in Haiti.

Qualifications: There is a wide variety of different international volunteer short term projects. They include mainly one of the following types of activities:

* work with orphans and other socially disadvantaged children
* environmental and nature protection activities, ecology, gardening and forestry
* renovation and restoration of social, cultural, historic sites
* archaeological excavations and historical heritage work

Choose a volunteer project according to your interests, skills and area in which you wish to contribute.

In each short term project the charity work activities' duration is up to 8 hours a day, five days a week. This work is voluntary. No special skills, experience or knowledge are needed. The activities carried out are always espective of each participant's physical abilities. Don't be afraid to try doing something different, something which you haven't experienced before. Technical leaders in each project lead the working process and constantly monitor the safety of volunteers. The common work is foreseen as a way for getting better understanding, building friendship and also as a good example of awareness of the problems.

Cost in US$: 800

Credit Available: yes

Experience Required: no

Age Range: 18-75

This Program is open to American, Asian, Australian, Canadian, European, Kiwi, South African and Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 5-30

Application Process Involves:

• Other
• Phone Interview
• Written Application

Force d'Entraide et de Developpement Integre's Mission Statement: We seek to reflect God's love for us in the way we treat others - not only with words of encouragement, but through practical actions which comfort, sustain and uplift those in greatest need. The Scriptures clearly reveal this call to action, and its truth will be our guide (1 John 3:16, Isaiah 58:6-12, Matthew 25:31-46, Acts 2:40-47). In recognition that poverty ravages many areas of the world - victimizing families, children and the elderly, we dedicate ourselves to a ministry of relief and development to aid the poor Wherever possible, our work is not to sustain the needy, but rather to break the cycle of poverty that plagues them. By providing educational opportunities and by focusing on community development, we strive to make impoverished individuals and villages self-supporting. food for hungry families and schoolchildren literacy for underprivileged women medicines and supplies to hospitals care and education for orphans and other vulnerable children water supplies (wells, aqueducts) to parched villages housing for the homeless micro-enterprise programs for poor families emergency relief from natural disasters &and many other projects and programs to relieve suffering and raise the quality of life for the poor in the Caribbean

Year Founded: 1990